CVE-2017-3055 Memory corruption in Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0.19 and earlier, 15.006.30280 and earlier, 15.023.20070 and earlier.

What is CVE-2017-3055?

CVE-2017-3055 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 12 Apr 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 11.0.19 and earlier, 15.006.30280 and earlier, 15.023.20070 and earlier have an exploitable heap overflow vulnerability in JPEG 2000 parsing of the fragment list tag. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-3055?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Dc, Adobe Acrobat Reader Dc, Adobe Reader.

How do I fix CVE-2017-3055?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-3055 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2017-3055 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-3055 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

• CVE-2021-28550 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-21017 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0546 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-h5cw-j7vg-mv6r.